Clothes-wringer.



Patgmad Dec. 2, .1902.

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MAXIMILLIAN P. JANISCH, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN.

CLOTH ES-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,077, dated December 2, 1902.

Application filed April SO, 1902.

To tir/ whom zv' may concern:

Be it known that VI, MAXIMILLIAN P. J AN- ISCH, a citizen of theUnited States, and a resident of Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Vi-ingers; and 'I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of 4parts hereinafter particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed, the object of said invention being to improve the details of clotheswringers in which the upper rolls under pressure automatically adjust themselves to varying thickness of material operated upon Without bind or increase of friction in the gearing.

Figure l of the drawings represents a partlysectional rear elevation of my improved clothes-wringer; Figs. 2, 3, and 4, partly-sectional views of the wringer, respectively indicated by lines 2 2, 3 3, and 4 4. in the first iigure; and Fig. 5, a front elevation of a portion of the wringer.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates the top bar; B, each of a pair of 1ongitudinally-slotted standards; C, the nameboard, and D the under drip-board or watershed, that combine to form the Wood frame of my clothes-wringer, this frame being similar in the general construction and assembly of its parts to those that are old in the art. Each standard B of the frame is provided with a transverse horizontal socket and apertures that communicate with this socket, the socket being engaged by an apertured shank h of a bracket E, with which a tub-clamp F is pivotally connected. A rod G extends through registering apertures in both framestandards and the brackct-shanks therein to hold said shanks in engagement with their sockets. One end of rod G is shown upset to form a standard-opposing head, and the other end of said rod is shown as having a standard-opposing nut c run thereon; but both ends of the rod may be upset or other means employed to prevent its automatic displacement.

The slots of the frame-standards are half- Serial No. 105,381. (No model.)

round at their lower ends and bushed with sheet-steel bearings H for the journals of the lower wringer-roll I, each of these bearings being provided with a standard-facing end flange d and upper horizontal flanges e, that engage transverse kerfs provided in said standards, open to the slots of same. The bushings serve to reduce friction to an extent that will obviate the use of lubricating material on the journals of the lower wringerlroll, and their flanges being opposed to ends of said roll the latterV is prevented from having frictional contactwith the wooden framestandards.

Engaging the slots in the frame-standards are metallic slides J K, each provided with lateral ribs f, that engage guide-grooves g, formed in said standards longitudinally thereof, and said slides are shaped at their lower ends to form bearings for the journals of the upper Wringer-roll L, that is shown spurgcared to the drive-shaft M, thathas its bearings in slide K and a metallic bracket N, the latter being made fast to a frame-standard by screws or other suitable means.

The drive-shaft is provided With the usual crank O,and sprocket-wheels P Q, fast on said drive-shaft and one of the lower Wringer-roll journals, are for engagement of a link belt, k(indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1,) the gearingas a whole being old in the art.

Sprocket-Wheel P and a collar R. of the drive-shaft oppose bearing-bracket N in opposite directions to prevent longitudinal play of said shaft.

An upper prolongation h of a barrel S has rocker-bearing on the rounded upper end of slide J, and another upper prolongation t' has similar bearing on trunnions (one of which is markedj in Fig. l) extending from an upper inner corner of a bell-crank lever T,one arm of which is in rocker-bearing hook connection with the rounded upper end of slide K,its other arm being in like connection with the rounded end of an eye 7.a at one end of a rod U, that extends through a compression-spring V and a spring-abutting Washer 'm in said barrel, a tension-n ut n being run on the screw-threaded other end of the rod against the Washer. Prolongation rof barrel S is necessarily forked to lstraddle lever T, each fork branch being in rocker-bearing contact with a trunnion j and ICO extended under a lateral lug p of said lever, one fork branch of the barrel, a lever-trunnion, and a lever-lug being shown in Fig. 1. A barrel-opposing set-screw W is adjustable in the top barA of the Wrnger-frame. The spring' being inclosed in a barrel, it is protected from Water, and hence less liable to rust under ordinary conditions to which a Wringer is subjected, a compression-spring having been found more efficient and durable than an expansion-spring. The tension of the spring is regulated by adjustment of nut 'n on rod U against Washer m, and the springpressureis brought on the slides J K by downward adjustment of the set-screw W, equal roll-pressure in the wringer being automaticy ally maintained incidental to oscillation of rocker-bearing connection with one of the slides, a barrel in similar connection with the bell-crank and other of said slides, a compression-spring in the barrel, a rod that be- 3 5 ing in connection With said bell-crank extends through the spring, means in connection with the rod for tensioning the spring, and other means for exerting pressure on said barrel.

2. Aclothes-Wringerhavinglongitudinallyslotted frame-standards, bearing-slides in the standard-slots provided with lateral ribs en-l gaging guide-grooves provided in said standards, a bell-crank having rocker-bearing connection With one of the slides, a barrel in similar connection With the bell-crank and other of said slides, a com pression-spring in the barrel, a rod that being in connection with said bell-crank extends through the spring, means 5o in connection With the rod for tensioning the spring, and other means for exerting pressure on said barrel.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, in the presence of two Witnesses.

MAXIMILLIAN P. JANISCH. 

